Archive for July, 2020

McLeod Group guest blog by Rebecca Tiessen, July 29, 2020

The WE scandal has raised serious concerns about the WE organization’s links to the Trudeau government and questionable decision-making processes that led to it being designated the only organization able to carry out an ambitious volunteer program for Canadian students. In the midst of the evolving WE scandal, the group’s co-founders, Craig and Marc Kielburger, announced the organization would put WE Days on hold and return to ...

McLeod Group blog by Lauchlan T. Munro, July 20, 2020

Collateral damage from the WE student volunteer program scandal continues to pile up: allegations of racism and white saviourism, a board in meltdown, questions about “complex” and “unusual” organizational structures where money flows from the charity to the privately held for-profit business… The situation is so dire that WE’s founders, Craig and Marc Kielburger, ...